subcortical

1. 1.

   of or relating to or being or involving nerve centers below the cerebral cortex

Questions about subcortical

What does subcortical mean?

subcortical means "of or relating to or being or involving nerve centers below the cerebral cortex".

How many syllables are in subcortical?

subcortical has 4 syllables and divides as sub-cor-ti-cal under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is subcortical a common word?

subcortical is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.